New Zealand is holding its 2008 web site assessment, looking at 500+ websites in the government domain, testing them against ten simple accessibility principles.
When was the last time Australia did a similar review?
If you’ve not on Twitter, or regularly visiting AGIMO’s new Govspace blog, you may not yet be aware of the Australian Gov 2.0 showcase. The showcase has been established as a place for the Australian Government to publicly share case studies, videos and information about various Government 2.0 initiatives taking place. The first goal of…
The US has had a number of voting dramas over the last ten years, probably none so well documented as that of the Florida recount in the 2000 Presidential election that saw George Bush Jnr win. As a result of the paper ballet issues uncovered by this and other elections, the US has introduced e-voting systems,…
People invest an enormous amount of identity and personal energy into their own names. Names are our unique identifiers, defining us as separate to others – even for people with common names. So when organisations make rules about the names people can use online it can create signficant distress and dislocation for people. It also…
I have been working on building the correct conditions for intranet blogging within my agency. This has involved introducing the concept (or ‘meme‘) into the collective consciousness of key managers over the last twelve months, through; forwarding links to online blogs which were of interest to individual managers, publicising the increasing use of the agency’s…
The ACT Government has scheduled its next Virtual Community Cabinet (VCC) meeting for 12.30 today. This is the third VCC held by the ACT government and has the theme “The Canberra you want to live in past 2013”. I’m collecting the public discussion via the liveblog below (and by RSS) – which means you can…
One of the most frustrating and, I think, silliest things I found when working in Australian government agencies was how almost every department, agency and statutory body developed almost all of its own policies, procedures, software and tools. There was often ‘undercover’ sharing – where people in agencies would ask their colleagues in others for…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
'; loop.parentNode.insertBefore(w,loop); })();